510. ---------------. [CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS.] Synthetic Fuels Plant for India. Vol. 29, 1951, p. 1136. Announcement has been made of plans for construction of a plant for the Kalaga Synethetic Oil Corp., Ltd., of Cuttack, Orissa, by Cie. Pan-Européenne d’Installations et d’Equipment Industriels of Paris and Ruhrchemie A.-G. of Germany. The plant will have an initial capacity of 10,000 tons, expandable later to 100,000 tons. Synthesis gas will be made from powdered coal by total gasification. The Indian Government has agreed to buy the entire output of gasoline. 5 Indian students, who have been studying in Paris for 2 yrs., will operate the plant. Production is expected to begin in 1952. |